[Haskell-cafe] haddock backends

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Interesting, I didn't know that.

So the libraries part of the Haskell Report simply documents the status
quo?

* malcolm.wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> [2014-01-07 13:24:38+0000]
> I believe the LaTeX backend for Haddock is used to generate the libraries part of the Haskell Report.
> Regards,
>    Malcolm
> 
> On 07 Jan, 2014,at 01:10 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> 
> * Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> [2014-01-07 02:52:12+0000]
> * This touches on frequently overlooked problem: Haddock targets more
> than just the HTML back-end. We also have the LaTeX back-end and the
> Hoogle back-end. This is why we don't allow things like verbatim
> HTML in the markup, it doesn't make sense for anything but HTML.
> Admittedly, LaTeX back-end could just generate the maths itself but
> we then suddenly have to change the ‘verbatim’ block to the ‘LaTeX’
> block. It's also unclear how Hoogle back-end would deal with this.
> Even if we add the ‘LaTeX structure‘ to Haddock, I'm afraid that it
> might end up with people just writing LaTeX for their documentation
> which is useless for anyone not using that back-end.
> 
> I see no reason why haddock should have a hoogle backend, as opposed to
> hoogle using the GHC API directly. It's just a hack that exists for
> historical reasons.
> 
> Other than that, HTML is the only backend really in use at the moment,
> I believe.
> 
> Roman
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